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Staff
Subject Head
Richard Gilbert: BA, GEPC
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Beän van Eeden: BEd (Hons) (NMMU)
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Benji Ekron
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Zaine Marx
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Overview
Since being offered at the start of 2006, Business Studies has grown and become a popular choice of pupils in the FET phase.
Some of the areas that Business Studies focuses on are as follows :
Business Environments
Business Operations
Business Roles
Business Ventures
Brief Policy
To ensure that all students acquire and apply essential business knowledge, skills and principles to productively and profitably conduct business in changing business environments. Create business opportunities, creatively solve problems and take risks, respecting the rights of others and environmental sustainability.
Apply basic leadership and management skills and principles while working with others to accomplish business goals. Be motivated, self-directed, reflective lifelong learners who responsibly manage themselves and their activities while working towards business goals. Be committed to developing others, as well as self, through business opportunities and ventures.
Homework
Homework will be set as often as possible, every day if necessary. Grade 12 students will also be expected to complete old exam questions, as part of their revision on work previously covered, while exemplars provided by the education department should also be worked through as part of revision. Any homework not done should be followed up and punished suitably by the teacher concerned.
Grade 10 Information
| BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS | BUSINESS OPERATIONS |
| Micro environment: Components/ features of the micro/internal business environment | Business functions and the activities of the business |
| Market environment: Components/ features of the market environment | The concept of quality |
| Macro environment: Components/ features of the market environment | |
| Interrelationship of micro, market and macro environments | |
| Business sectors | |
| Contemporary socio-economic issues |
| BUSINESS VENTURES | BUSINESS ROLES |
| Entrepreneurial qualities | Social responsibility |
| Forms of ownership | Creative thinking and problem solving |
| Business opportunity and related factors | Self-management |
| Business location decision | Relationships and team performance |
| Contracts | |
| Presentation of business information | |
| Business plan |
Tests and Forms of Assessment
Term 1 1 standardised class test; 1 case study
Term 2 1 standardised class test; 1 presentation
Term 3 2 standardised class test; 1 project
Term 4 1 November Examination
Examinations
Examinations are written in June (internal) and November (external)
Textbooks
Platinum, Grade 10
Grade 11 Information
| BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS | TERM | BUSINESS OPERATIONS | TERM |
| Influences of business environments | 1 | Marketing function | 2 |
| Challenges of the business environment | 1 | Production function | 2 |
| Adapting to challenges of the business environments | 1 | Introduction to Human Resources | 4 |
| Contemporary socio-economic issues | 1 | ||
| Business sectors | 1 | ||
Tests and Forms of Assessment
Term 1 1 standardised class test; 1 case study
Term 2 1 standardised class test; 1 presentation
Term 3 2 standardised class test; 1 project
Term 4 1 November Examination
Examinations
Examinations are written in June (internal) and November (external)
Textbooks
Platinum, Grade 11
Grade 12 Information
| 1. BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS | TERM | 2. BUSINESS OPERATIONS | TERM |
|
1.1. Macro environment: Impact of recent legislation on business |
1 | 2.1 Human resources function | 1 |
|
1.2 Macro environment: Business strategies |
1 | 2.2 Quality of performance | 2 |
| 1.3 Business sectors and their environments | 2 | ||
| 1. BUSINESS VENTURES | TERM | 2. BUSINESS ROLES | TERM |
| 1.1 Management and leadership | 2 | 2.1 Ethics and professionalism | 1 |
| 1.2 Investment: Securities/Opportunities | 2 | 2.2 Creative thinking and Problem-solving | 1 |
| 1.3 Investment:
Insurance |
2 | 2.3 Social Responsibility and Corporate Citizenship
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Corporate Social Investment (CSI) |
3 |
| 1.4 Forms of ownership with the focus on how they can contribute to the success/failure of a business. | 3 | 2.4 Human rights, inclusivity and environmental issues | 3 |
| 1.5 Presentation and data response | 3 | 2.5 Team performance assessment
Conflict management |
2 |
Tests and Forms of Assessment
Term 1 1 standardised class test; 1 case study
Term 2 1 presentation
Term 3 1 project and Trial Examination
Term 4 1 November Examination
Examinations
Examinations are written in June (internal) and November (external)
Textbooks
X-Kit, Grade 12